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A Ballymena cladding contractor has seen its orders build up after a £5m capital injection a year ago.Read Full Article: The Construction Index Source link

Google Streetview captured the cladding remediation worksWhen combustible Grenfell-style cladding was found on The Circle, an eight-storey building on Henry Street in Liverpool, Green Facades Limited was contracted to remove it.. When an inspector from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) first visited the site...

The Lumiere building [from Google Streetview]City of London Magistrates Court this week ruled against Chaplair Ltd after it failed to meet a deadline to remove dangerous cladding from its Lumiere building at 544 Romford Road, London E7.  Newham Council pursued legal action using its powers...

Topek re-clad the Premier Inn Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries in 2021Brickability will pay an initial £27.3m on a cash-free, debt-free basis, and a deferred consideration of up to £17.7m contingent on performance over the next three years. Established in 1981 in Glasgow, Topek installs cladding and...

Managing director Jazz Rigden (left) with founder Paul Richards Jazz Rigden has been promoted from sales director to managing director of Somerset-based Aquarian Cladding Systems. Paul Richards, the founder, owner and (until now) managing director, has moved to a new role of chief executive of...

For the year ended 31st October 2022, Crest Nicholson made a pre-tax profit of £32.8m (2021: £86.9m) on revenue of £913.6m (2021: £786.6m). Home completions increased 13.6% to 2,734 (2021: 2,407). Crest Nicholson’s final results include a charge of £105.0m for replacing combustible materials on...

The £8m will be shared among 59 councils – making an average of about £135,000 per local authority, or substantially less than the annual pay of an average council chief executive. “This is not a lot of money”, said housing lawyer Justin Bates on Twitter....

Vista Tower in StevenageThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has taken the first step towards legal action against Grey GR, an organisation ultimately owned by RailPen – the Railways Pension Scheme.                                          Grey GR Ltd Partnership, the freeholder of Vista Tower, a 15-storey...

Members of the Caddick team with MD Paul Dodsworth (third from left) welcome their new colleaguesTen design and management jobs have been saved as part of the deal which saw the assets secured for an undisclosed sum from appointed administrator Interpath. Caddick’s acquisition includes the...

It cost Martlet Homes £8m to replace the EWI cladding that Mulalley had installed in an earlier refurbishmentMulalley refurbished five 1960s concrete tower blocks in Gosport between 2006 and 2008, Kelsey Housing Association using an expanded polystyrene (EPS) external wall insulation (EWI) cladding system. It...

At a trading level, things are going well for Crest Nicholson, despite inflationary pressures. For the six months to 30th April 2022, adjusted operating profit rose to £54.5m (2021 H1: £40.0m), with the adjusted operating profit margin increasing to 15.0% (2021: 12.3%). However, as previously...

Grenfell Tower was refurbished with flammable claddingThe ban on the use of combustible materials in and on external walls of certain buildings over 18 metres in height has been extended to include new hotels, hostels and boarding houses. This extends the 2018 ban that covered...

It said that some of the country’s largest housing developers have agreed to work with the Scottish Government and others to address cladding issues, giving affected homeowners a clear path to ensuring their homes are safe. Under the Scottish Safer Buildings Accord, developers will be...

For Redrow, the costs of remediation have soared to £200m as a result of the pledge. Yesterday we reported that Crest Nicholson, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Berkeley had signed the pledge. [See previous report here.] Today we can add Redrow and MJ Gleeson to the...

In a statement this morning Crest Nicholson said that it has told the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) that it intends to sign up to the Building Safety Pledge. However, it still does not know how much it will costs the business...